"Recruitment?"

At noon on the same day, Li Yunlong gathered Zhao Gang, Kong Jie, and Zhang Dabiao and held a small meeting at the headquarters of the Independent Youth League to express his thoughts.

The size of the Independent Regiment continued to be expanded to 1,800 men.

Since he decided to accept Zhao Gang as the political commissar of the independent regiment, Li Yunlong naturally did not engage in that kind of statement, the political commissar is in charge of life, and the regiment commander is in charge of the military, but really discussed with Zhao Gang if there is something.

"Now?"

"Aren't there five hundred prisoners of war coming soon?"

Zhao Gang was a little strange:

"In the independent regiment, there is a serious shortage of grassroots officers and cadres, and it is already a bit difficult to absorb these prisoners of war."

"If you continue to recruit troops, will the steps be too big?"

After the Battle of Yangcun, the total strength of the Independent Regiment was less than 800 men, although some wounded men had recently returned to the regiment, as well as 120 combat backbones supported by the new regiment.

But it adds up to just a thousand.

Tonight, more than 500 prisoners of war will be able to go to Yangcun, and in the name of Li Yunlong, with his ideological education and white-faced steamed buns, let alone 400 soldiers.

Now recruiting troops, something is not suitable.

The main problem lies in the serious shortage of officers at the grassroots level.

Those prisoners of war in the Central Army, with a little training and ideological education, are good soldiers, but they are really not suitable for officers.

"I've thought about it, it's not a big problem!"

Li Yunlong is confident:

"I can solve the problem of grassroots officers and cadres."

Isn't it just a grassroots officer cadre?

At the level of the whole army, there is a serious shortage of grassroots officers and cadres at the battalion, company, and platoon levels, even if it is the main regiment, it is also seriously insufficient; after all, in the battle, battalion, company, and platoon cadres are the group with the greatest casualties.

But to supply a regiment of 1,800 people, it was just a drizzle.

In the past few days, he has pondered the contract, and he has figured it out.

It seems that in order to avoid misunderstanding among the superiors, Brother Lu only cares about the consumption of ammunition and weapons during the cooperation mission, and as for the weapons and ammunition provided to the independent regiment, after the review and distribution, how to use it is almost completely irrelevant, and how the superiors command the independent regiment does not matter at all.

Only one was written, prohibiting deliberate extravagance and waste, as well as conforming to the normal use habits of the troops, otherwise the cooperation would be stopped. At the end, a sentence was added to provide a rough monthly report on the consumption and use of weapons and ammunition, with the possibility of increasing the types of items in the list, as appropriate.

And whether it is the main regiment or the backbone regiment, it is actually very common to exchange weapons and ammunition for officers, and back then, when he was in the new regiment, he also used captured materials to change several company and platoon commanders from the brigade commander.

When the first batch of weapons and ammunition arrived, he first went to wholesale dozens of excellent company platoon commanders.

Take advantage of the low price now!

"Grassroots officer cadres solved, but."

Zhao Gang was stunned for a moment, but changed the topic:

"What about weapons and equipment?"

"What about the food problem?"

"The food, weapons and ammunition needed by 1,800 people are not a small number, and we have just sent out all the Czech-type seven or nine bullets in the warehouse."

Zhang Dabiao and Kong Jie also looked at Li Yunlong.

Although it is speculated that Grand Master Li can continue to get weapons, ammunition, and food supplies, it is a guess after all, and he has not yet admitted it.

"This is not a problem, I can get enough weapons and equipment, ammunition and food, you don't need to worry, we can all fight a rich war in the future."

Li Yunlong waved his hand.

"First set up the shelves of the independent regiment and train the troops well, and then, we still have big battles to fight."

After being admitted by Li Yunlong himself, the three of them immediately showed a satisfied smile.

"It's simple, there are militias in several villages around Yang Village, and you can get it together immediately."

Kong Jie patted his chest, and his tone was confident.

Yang Village is a base area, the army has a strong mass base, and there are militiamen in every village, so it is easy to gather a few hundred people.

What restricted the expansion of the Eighth Route Army was never the source of troops, but food, weapons, and ammunition.

Especially grain.

Even if you are holding a big knife and fighting a bayonet with a devil, you have to eat enough.

"Lao Zhao."

Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang:

"I'm going to have to work hard for you next."

"The cultural training of so many fighters can't be pulled down."

The contract with Lu Renjia clearly stated that as the cooperation deepened, the content of the cooperation would become more and more difficult, and suggested that Li Yunlong improve the combat capability of the independent regiment and the cultural knowledge level of the soldiers to adapt to modern equipment.

The meaning is obvious,

In the future, although cooperation will become more and more difficult, there will also be more modern equipment, for example, armored vehicles, tanks, large-caliber artillery, which will appear on the list.

"No problem."

Zhao Gang nodded happily.

The commissar was supposed to do this.

"Lao Zhao and I organized the recruitment of new recruits from the prisoner of war camp."

Li Yunlong said to Kong Jie:

"Lao Kong, you and Sun Desheng will transfer manpower from the three battalions to organize the soldiers to conduct equestrian training."

"You want to form a cavalry battalion?"

Kong Jie was stunned and his eyes widened:

"Even if we can raise it, we don't have so many people!"

"And the superior..."

Cavalry is a good thing, the battlefield mobility is extremely high, it is very easy to use, even if you can't charge head-on against the devil, but the flank cut, mobile outflanking, is also a lot of benefits.

But there are also disadvantages and troubles.

The demand for military horse feed is not low, and the quality is far less than that of mules, and military horses need a lot of breeding grounds, and they also need enough auxiliary manpower.

There is always one cavalry battalion in the troops, and the rest of the troops, even if they are brigade headquarters, have only one cavalry company.

And, the brigade commander will ask a regiment to engage in a cavalry battalion?

"Why do you care so much?"

Li Yunlong glared and scolded:

"Execute orders honestly."

Grand Master Li certainly knew that raising a cavalry battalion would have many benefits, but it would also be a lot of trouble.

Even if food is not a problem for him, the application form has not been submitted yet, and it is still two things to say whether Brother Lu will approve the feed or not, so it is only possible here.

After all, theoretically speaking, it is no problem for an infantry regiment to be attached to a cavalry battalion, but it feels somewhat unreasonable when you look at it.

The superiors would not let him make a cavalry battalion.

After all, this is the equipment he captured,

But it doesn't matter, he only needs to apply for supplies for the quota of more than 300 military horses, and after that, he can let the brigade commander take it away, and by the way, he can also let the soldiers train in equestrianism.

Even if Brother Lu doesn't approve the material application, he won't lose anything, just throw it to the brigade commander.

"Okay."

Anyway, it's not Kong Jie who is the head of the regiment, and it's not his thing to lose, so Master Kong doesn't care.

"Regiment Commander, Captain Xu is here with the prisoners of war we rescued."

At the end of the meeting, the prisoners of war rescued by Li Yunlong from the Liao County prisoner of war camp also arrived in Yang Village, and the four of them immediately went to work.

···

Meanwhile.

The brigade commander also came to the regimental headquarters of the 772nd regiment.

"Did you get the Czech style and bullets from Li Yunlong?"

Faced with the brigade commander's question, Cheng Shifa's eyes immediately widened and he did not answer immediately.

He wanted to hide.

After all, the business with Li Yunlong is too profitable, and it is soft to take advantage of others.

However, there was a brigade commander in front of him, and he directly asked if he was from Li Yunlong, which showed that the brigade commander was already suspicious, and it was of little sense to continue to conceal it at this time.

Sure enough, it's Li Yunlong!

Looking at Cheng Shifa's expression, the brigade commander had the answer in his heart.

"What did he ask you for?"

The brigade commander asked directly.

"He asked me to borrow twenty military horses, four Czech-style, twenty-thousand-round seven-nine pointed bullets."

In the end, Cheng Shifa answered honestly.

"Four Czech-style, 20,000 rounds of seventy-nine pointed bullets, and twenty military horses, this deal, you kid is taking a big advantage!"

The brigade commander said.

With Li Yunlong's Czech-style quality, one can withstand six devils, plus 20,000 rounds of ammunition, it is definitely more than enough to exchange for twenty military horses.

"It's borrowed."

Cheng Shifa emphasized:

"Later, twenty military horses, Li Yunlong returned."

"What?"

"The military horse Li Yunlong has been returned?"

The brigade commander was stunned and hurriedly asked:

"Czechs and bullets, does he want to go back?"

"Nope."

Cheng Shifa continued to answer honestly:

"Originally, it was said that four Czech-style and 20,000 rounds of ammunition were half of the deposit and half of the rent, but when Li Yunlong returned the horses, he didn't even ask for a deposit."

"I took the initiative to give him the military horse, but Li Yunlong refused to ask for it."

"So generous? Evil Gate! ”

The brigade commander tsk, tsk, tsk.

But he did have a smile on his face.

Will Li Yunlong's nature change?

No way.

Then, the more evil this guy is, the richer this kid is.

"Let's go, go to a new group!"

After leaving from the 772 regiment, the brigade commander did not go to the separate regiment, but went straight to the new regiment.

The brigade commander estimated in his heart that Ding Wei's 150,000 rounds of ammunition were also obtained by Li Yunlong.

In fact, he also wanted to go to Liaozhen to have a look.

However, Liaozhen is too far away and is in an enemy-occupied area, so it may be dangerous to go there, but Xingjia Village, where the new regiment is stationed, is not far from the station of the 772nd regiment, and it will be able to arrive soon.

came all the way to the new regiment at high speed, and when I saw Ding Wei, the brigade commander was also the same problem:

"Where did Li Yunlong get those bullets of yours?"

"The head of the report is indeed from Li Yunlong!"

Ding Wei rolled his eyes and admitted directly.

Although this business is very profitable, and it is soft to take people, but you can't deceive your superiors, right?!

"What did you buy?"

The brigade commander continued to ask,

"Li Yunlong used 40 Czech-style and 200,000 rounds of ammunition to ask me for 120 combat backbones, and I can't choose company and platoon-level cadres, there is only one company commander."

Ding Wei replied honestly.

"You really make money in this business!"

The brigade commander sighed with emotion.

Because of the serious shortage of weapons and equipment in the troops, it has also created a strange situation - the substitution of weapons and equipment.

At present, the market price is five Czechs for one company commander.

The Czech style here is not an imported original good product taken out by Li Yunlong, but an ordinary Jin type, or a fruit Czech style, the quality is slightly worse, and the parts cannot be used.

Li Yunlong's kind of original high-quality Czech-style, if the spare parts are complete, one top five are made.

Composed of combat backbones, an infantry squad with a squad leader, a Jin Czech, or, 500 rounds.

Ding Wei's business is made by blood.

"I guess..."

Before leaving the new regiment, the brigade commander remembered the Liaoxian prisoner of war camp that had been taken not long ago, and said something:

"The prisoner of war camp in Liao County is also very likely to have been done by Li Yunlong."